Typographical machine.



T. S. HUMANS.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.2I l9l5- Patented May 8, 1917.

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T. S. HUMANS.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG 21 1915 1 a nun r THQMAS S. HUMANS, 01F HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T6 INTERTYPE (R- PORATIQN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YQRK.

TYPOG-BAPHIC MACHIEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1191?.

Application filed August 2?, 1915. Serial No. 47,679.

. Typographical Machines, of which the following 1s a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in line casting machines and more especially to those adapted to contain a plurality of magazines any one of which may be brought into use as desired.

The primary object of the invention is to provide an improved mounting for, the magazines which enables the use interchangeably of magazines having matrix retaining shutters formed on their upper or rear ends and which reduces to a minimum the overhang of the magazines at their front or lower ends.

The present invention is an improvement upon the construction shown and described in my prior application, Serial No. 833,738, filed April 22, 1914, and that shown and described in the patent to Samuel E. Sperry and William H. Orpen, din, No. 1,156,040, granted October 5, 1915, in that it embodies thecombined advantages above mentioned.

Tn the accompanying. drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the upper portion of a machine of the linotype class and embodying a magazine mounting constructed in accordance with the present invention, the lower magazine being shown in operative position in this instance;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but

. showing the magazines shifted to bring the upper magazine into operative position;

Figs. 3 and i are views similar to Figs. 1 and 2, but showing-another embodiment of the invention.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the several views.

The invention is capable of use in connection generally with line casting machines of the type wherein matrices are stored in inclined magazines and are delivered therefrom under the control of a keyboard. The present embodiments of the invention as illustrated in the drawing are adapted for application to machines of the linotype class, but it will be understood.

that the invention is not restricted to this particular application, and also that equivalent constructions within the scope of the claims are contemplated.

' In the present instance, 1 designates the upper portion of the main frame of the machine, and 2 designates the bracket which supports the distributer and related parts. The distributor may be of the well-known construction commonly used in machines of the l'inotype class and hence it is not shown in detail, it being suilicient for the purposes of the present invention to illustrate the magazine entrance 3 which directs the matrices from the distributer into the appropriate channels at the upper or rear ends of the magazine.

In the present embodiments of the invention, the machine is adapted to contain two matrix magazines 4: and 5, these magazines being shown in inclined superposed relation and mounted removably in a magazine carrying frame .6. The magazines are shown provided at their upper ends with shutters 7 and 8 which serve to prevent spilling of the matrices when the magazines are removed from the machine. These shutters may be of any suitable construction, those shown being of the type illustrated and1 described in my prior application aforesai When the magazines are in position on the machine, the shutters belonging to the magazines must be in open position while the respective magazines are in operative position, in order to receive matrices from the distributor. The lower or forward ends of the magazines are shown provided with escapements 9 and 10 which control the delivery of matrices from the respective maga operative position.

The present invention provides a mounting and shifting means for the magazines whereby operation of. the matrix retaining shutters at the upper ends of the magazines is not interfered with, thus enabling a machine to handle, interchangeably, magazines equipped with such shutters, and it reduces the overhang of the magazines at the front of the machine to a minimum. The compactness of the magazine structure also enables machines originally designed for one magazine to be altered to accommodate two magazines without any change in the framework of the machine. To accomplish these results, the magazines 4 and 5 are so mounted in the frame 6 that their forward ends are relatively close together and their rear or upper ends are spaced apart for a distance suflicient to accommodate the shutter 7 of the upper magazine. This convergent spacing of the magazines provides the necessary clearance space for the-shutter 7 of the upper magazine to avoid interference with its operation, and it also brings the lower or forward ends of the magazines into close relation, thereby minimizing the extent to which the upper magazine overhangs at the front of the machine.

The present invention also provides means for shifting the magazines .in accordance with the convergent spacing of the magazines. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the magazine shifting means comprises at the front a rock shaft 12 having a pair of cranks or arms 13 fixed thereon which are pivotally connected to the forward or lower end of the magazine frame 6 at 14, and an operating handle 15 is also fixed to the rock shaft 12. The forward or lower portion of the magazine frame 6 is preferably provided with depending lugs 16 to which the cranks or arms 13 are connected, and the lower ends of these lugs are adapted to rest on a 1 pair of stops 17 and'18 formed on the main frame, the stop 17 positioning the lower magazine with its escapements 1O incooperative relation with the actuating reeds 11 as shown in Fig. 1, and when the operating handle 15 is rotated into the position shown in Fig. 2, the depending lugs 16 -will then rest on the stops 18 and the escapements 9 of the upper magazine will then be positioned in operative relation with the actuating reeds 11, as shown in Fig. 2. 'Owing, however, to the greater spacing of the magazines at their rear ends as compared with their forward ends, means must be provided for guiding the rear ends of the magazines'during their shifting movements which will accommodate itself to the greater spacing of the magazines and will compensate for the overmotion produced by the rock shaft 12. In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, alever 19 is pivoted to the frame of the machine. at each side and on the axis 20, each lever having a radial slot 21 in which operates a pin 22 fixed to the side of the magazine frame. 6. The-pin 22 in each side of the magazine frame 6 is preferably eccentric on its axis, whereby it may be adjusted to position the lower magazine 5 accurately with reference to the magazine entrance 3, as will appear from Fig. 1'. A set screw or equivalent adjustable stop 23 is also shown, one being attached to the frame of the machine at each side thereof and in position to abut against the respective lever 19 when the upper magazine is in operative position, adjusting of this stop enabling the upper magazine to be positioned accurately with reference to the magazine entrance.

'In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, an approximately half revolution of the shaft 12 will bring the desired magazine into operative positlon. The radial slot 21 in each of the levers 19 is provided to compensate for the extreme throw of the cranks or arms 13 when these cranks or arms are inthe position indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2..

In the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the forward ends of the magazines are shifted by a rock shaft 24 which is connected to the depending lugs 16 on the magazine frame 6 by the cranks or arms 13 as before, but the shaft 24' is capable of shifting in a forward and rearward direction in a slot 25 formed in each side of the frame of the machine. The rear ends of the magazines are guided in this embodiment of the invention by a lever 26 pivoted in each side of the frame of the machine on the axis 27 and a set screw or equivalent adjustable stop 28 is provided as asupport for each lever 26 when the upper magazine is in operative position. The eccentric pin 22 in each side of the magazine frame,.however, rests always in the bottom of a recess or slot 29 in the lever 26, the overmotion produced by the passage of the arms or cranks 13 over the dead center being compensated for by the shifting of the shaft 24 in the slots 25.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a plurality of forwardly and downwardly inclined magazines jointly mounted-at different inclinations, and means for moving the forward and rear ends of the magazines about different axes to bring any one of them into certain operative register with cotiperative parts of the machine.

2. The combination of a plurality of-inclined, superimposed, non-parallel magazines, mounted in fixed relation to each other; and single actuating means for moving the respective ends of the magazines about different axes to bring any one of the magazines into the proper operative angle and register.

3. In a machine of the linotype class, the

combination of a movable magazine carrying frame, a plurality of inclined magazines lower end of the carrying frame in a circu-' lar arc, meansfor moving the upper end of said frame through a circular arc of relatively smaller angle, a fixed stop for the upper end of said frame in its lower position, and means for the upper end of said frame to slide longitudinally after reaching its stop to compensate for excess movement of the lower end.

5. In a machine of the linotype class, in combination with a plurality of inclined matrix magazines, a movable carrying frame for said magazines, means for moving the lower end of the carrying frame in a circular are about an operative shaft,'means for moving the upper end of said frame throu h a circular arc of relatively smaller ang e, a fixed stop for the upper end of said frame in its lower position, and means to compensate for excess movement after the upper end of the frame has reached its stop.

6. In a machine of the linotype class, the combination with escapement means, and distributing means, of a plurality of vertically spaced magazines, the forward ends of the magazines being spaced closely and their rear ends spaced at a greater distance, and means for guiding and shifting the respective ends of the magazines about parallel axes to bring one or another of the magazines into cooperative relation with the escapement means and the distributing means and compensating for the difference in spacing between, the front and rear ends of the magazines.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS S. HOMANS.

Witnesses: I WALLACE INGRAHAM,

O. C. Hum. 

